You might be able, in the back rooms of Westminster, to convince one another that you can get away with a less-than-coherent health policy and rely on a lot of talk about the1930s to swing overwhelming public support for the NHS your party's way. But what the Labour Party needs now is a bit more Bevan-style fire in its belly.

Watching Ed Balls and George Osborne clawing each other in parliament yesterday was not an edifying spectacle - the parliamentary version of Alien versus Predator. I'm not one to agree with Osborne about anything if I can possibly help it, but when he condemns the 'Brownite cabal' for its economic mismanagement and its failure to regulate the banking system, you have to admit that he's not wrong.

The foolish man builds his house upon the sand, or in this case, debt. If David Cameron wishes to balance the books, I suggest we start with what is probably the biggest public sector inefficiency and end two decades' worth of farce.

Ultimately, we must invest in our infrastructure and make the UK the most attractive place in the world to do business. It's time to stop the talk and get spending. If this is the course of action the Government has decided to take - rightly, in my view - let's get on with it.